Among all the things you can do inTekken 8,one of them is to alter the looks of each playable character, as they have a few outfits for you to choose from whenever you’re about to fight someone online, offline, or just fight against the machine. However, along with all the amazing outfits the game offers, you can still customize your clothes, hair, and more.
Not only does that allow you to give your unique style to whoever is your main character in the game, but it also allows you to be a little over-the-top — which is always an appropriate thing to be in Tekken — and make your own silly customizations.
8Custom Tifa
If The Game Won’t Add Her, The People Will
Thanks to the previous game giving us a curious range of guest characters, one beingFinal Fantasy’s Noctis, many people have been asking for Tifa Lockhart to be a guest fighter, which would be pretty fitting considering her fighting style. Even Tekken’s Producer, Katsuhiro Harada, manifested online about all the Tifa demand.
Still, it’s still unclear whether he’ll attempt to get her or if that will even work. So, why not make your own Tifa? you’re able to even find tutorials for creating the character out of Jun Kazama online, fromYouTubers such as Kiralucy,and it’s pretty close to the original despite being custom clothes.
7Mecha Heihachi
Somehow, Heihachi Returned
Heihachi Mishima is dead. But that doesn’t mean you may’t bring him back, at least in appearance — there are lots of similar outfits, and you can change the color as needed. The biggest issue is his unique hairstyle, but people always find a way to circumvent these things. Like using horns for the hair, apparently.
@tekenchanel even showed their workon Twitter/X withJack-8, of all characters,fully customized to resemble Heihachi, giving us a mechanized version of the fallen not-hero. We always knew he’d find a way back.
6Super Mario Bros
From Plumbing to Fighting
Why not bring the world’s greatest plumbers to the King of the Iron Fist Tournament, as well? Though there aren’t custom overalls for you to use in character creation, you can still improvise and focus on the color schemes for your own creations.
Now, Mario and Luigi can get their payback against Kazuya for appearing in Super Smash Bros, and thanks to your custom skills.VaniX925 on Redditshowed their custom work creating them out of Jin and Kazuya.
5Custom 2B
From Android To Android
To be fair, this isn’t a silly costume, because the end result looks fantastic.YouTuber Ultralighthas many custom Tekken 8 outfits they shared, more than enough to be its own set of lists. However, for now, we’ll just focus on our personal favorite: 2B fromNier: Automata.
Again, it’s worth mentioning it’s not a one-to-one, as they are using custom pieces of clothing Tekken offers, which doesn’t contain a similar dress like 2B wears. Still, the essence of the character is extremely well conveyed in the outfit and hairstyle.
4Custom Leon
And You Can Add A Gun
Another custom outfit that goes more on the epic side of things rather than silly is Leon from theResident Evilseries. By using basic attire and a hairstyle change, many characters can end up looking like him, withReddit user shmick28using Lars for the assignment.
The extra fun part of this outfit is that you can choose different accessories to give your character, and some of them can actually be used in combat. One of these accessories is a shotgun, so you can add some firearm mechanics to your custom Leon.
3Dragon Ball Characters
The Options Are Plenty Here
Thanks to the similar fighting clothing and multiple characters with a spikier hairstyle (not to mention how you’re able to change any attire and hair color), it’s possible to create many different characters from theDragon Balluniverse, with plenty of custom Gokus, Vegetas, Gohans, and more out there.
Our top recommendations for Super Saiyan characters are Kazuya, Jin, and Lars, thanks to their hairstyles. Still, many different characters can be used here, even to make other characters outside the core group from the anime, as shown byYouTuber Spidey Fist.
2Fighters From Other Series
From Street Fighter To Mortal Kombat
In another case of ‘if the developers won’t add them, the fans will,’ you can create other combatants from different fighting games here through your customs. As is the case with Dragon Ball, the basic fighting attire is also similar to the likes of Ryu and Ken, for example, making them exciting picks, as shown byYouTuber Shotsoma.
On the same note, many players have also played around withrecreating Mortal Kombat characters,using characterssuch as Raven(Tekken’s main ninja), though other characters work well for the non-ninja characters in the Mortal Kombat series.
1Classic Costumes
Old School Is Always Stylish
When you have a game series as long as Tekken, then most characters have gone through multiple outfit changes throughout its installments (you may even wear Tekken 7 outfits here), and that will only continue when sequels arise — it’s all part of the process. Still, you can recreate old outfits here with custom mode, as long as the outfits aren’t too over-the-top to begin with.
YouTuber RetroDreamsmade a fun display of many old outfits from the Tekken series remade, and some are extremely close to the original, especially considering the game does offer a few classic attires here and there, helping with designing the whole set.
